Mary-Louise Parker has admitted that she tried marijuana for the first time at the age of 45.

The Weeds star has revealed that she experimented with the drug at a recent party to help her cope with her nausea.

Speaking to Vanity Fair, she said: "I didnâ€™t smoke, it was a lollipop. I was at a party, and Iâ€™d been kind of sick recently. I was in the hospital and on some really heavy antibiotics. But I went to this party and I was in the bathroom the whole night, on the floor. I was just so ill. Somebody at the party was like, 'The only thing thatâ€™s going to help your nausea is marijuana'. And, I remembered, somebody had given me a pot lollipop.

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"We did something about pot lollipops on Weeds. But those were props, obviously. Then somebody gave me some real ones. People give me pot all the time. I put them up in my closet, on the very, very top shelf, where I keep all my shoes, just so my kids wouldnâ€™t find them. I donâ€™t need that."

She added: "My entire life, I never wanted anything to do with marijuana. So when I was sick, I was like, 'What the hell?' I was actually kind of excited about it. I was like, 'Oh my God, Iâ€™m 45 and Iâ€™m having my first pot experience!' But it did nothing.

"I didnâ€™t feel anything! I mean, I still felt ill, but I didnâ€™t get any of the happy effects youâ€™re supposed to have. I donâ€™t know, maybe the lollipops went bad. I licked it. But somebody told me that you need to eat it. Somebody quite famous who grows his own, he told me I should be eating it. But at this point, I feel like 'Why bother?' I gave it a shot, it didnâ€™t work. Iâ€™m over it."